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WELCOME VIENNA CONFERENCE 2008

Welcome to the 5th International Conference Dear Colleagues,

The Learning Teacher Network™ is an international educational association, which unites professionals in the ambition of creating and sharing front-line strategies for and approaches to teaching and learning. As such, the network acts as an international platform for professional debate in the vanguard of educational progress.

The title of the fifth annual conference is ‘Values, Equality and Learning’. The conference title illustrates the ambition of the conference to discuss Education for All in a learning world. Recognising the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 both the true multinational composition of conference presenters and the expression of conference sessions demonstrate eagerness to address these issues, both from European and global perspectives. We respect and appreciate diversity but we take action for human values and equality, in which education plays a major role.

The conference addresses some of the professional, societal and global challenges that we all face and must respond to in order build education for all. Values, equality and learning are key words in this process and also vital goals in themselves.

The conference will be a venue for professionals all over Europe and beyond to meet with colleagues, to share experiences, theory and good practice, and to take part in the educational dialogue from international perspectives. We are proud to make this possible. By participating we are convinced that you will not only learn and share but also find many opportunities to make interesting professional contacts. Alike the previous four conferences, we believe that the 5th network conference will be highly valuable both for personal knowledge building and for reflection on educational development.

With gratitude I would like to thank our colleagues and conference hosts in Austria for making all local preparations and arrangements for the conference. Furthermore, I would like to express our appreciation of the Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture in Austria for the generous support given to this conference.

We wish you very welcome to the Vienna Conference 2008.

Magnus Persson Network Coordinator

THE CONFERENCE VENUE The 5th international conference is located to one of the most charming capitals in Europe: Vienna, Austria. By holding the conference in Vienna we hope that the delegates also will have the opportunity to explore the pulse and life of the city.

The newly renovated Airo Tower Hotel has modern conference facilities and accommodation in an appropriate combination. Wireless Internet free of charge. The venue is located in an attractive environment and close to the airport and the city centre.

You find comprehensive information about the conference venue on their website http://www.airo-hotels.at

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PROGRAMME VIENNA CONFERENCE 2008

Thursday Sep 25th 16h30 Registration of delegates followed by a Welcome Drink at 17h30 18h00 Cultural Ceremonies Opening Session with Words of Welcome from representatives of - The Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture in Austria - The Mayor’s Office of Vienna, Austria - The European Commission Representation in Austria - The National EU Agency for Lifelong Learning - The National Initiative ”Entwicklung von Professionalität im Internationalen Kontext“ (EPIK) Team - The Network Coordinator of the Learning Teacher Network 19h00 Plenary: Prof. Charles Hopkins, Canada; UNESCO Chair Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability, and United Nations University Chair for Education for Sustainable Development ‘ESD - Moving from Awareness to Concerted Action’ 20h00 Welcome Dinner

Friday Sep 26th 09h00 Parallel Sessions 1 10h00 Coffee break 10h30 Parallel Sessions 2 11h45 Parallel Sessions 3 13h00 Lunch 14h00 Parallel Sessions 4 15h00 Coffee break 15h30 Parallel Sessions 5 20h00 Conference Banquet at the Vienna City Hall (Rathaus)

Saturday Sep 27th 09h00 Plenary: Dr. Michael Schratz, University of Innsbruck, Austria ‘Teachers as Architects of the Future’ 10h00 Coffee break 10h30 Parallel Sessions 6 11h45 Parallel Sessions 7 13h00 Lunch 14h00 Parallel Sessions 8 15h00 Coffee break 15h30 Parallel sessions 9 16h30 Closing Ceremonies and Farewell Reception

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SESSIONS VIENNA CONFERENCE 2008

Keynote Addresses

PROF. CHARLES HOPKINS UNESCO CHAIR REORIENTING TEACHER EDUCATION TO ADDRESS SUSTAINABILITY, AND UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY CHAIR FOR EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ESD – MOVING FROM AWARENESS TO CONCERTED ACTION Education, public awareness, and training (ESD) can be powerful tools for moving nations, communities and households toward a more sustainable future. ESD builds the capacity of

nations to create, broaden, and implement, sustainability plans. It enhances the implementation of sustainability plans by creating an informed public that can support enlightened policy and legislation, and raises the quality of life for all members of society. This address will describe the key issues of moving from awareness programs to concerted actions in engaging educators in a variety of innovative initiatives. These issues and challenges associated with education for sustainable development (ESD) include understanding what ESD is and how it can contribute by engaging other disciplines, institutions, sectors and individuals.

UNIV.-PROF. DR. MICHAEL SCHRATZ CHAIRMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER TRAINING AND SCHOOLS RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA. TEACHERS AS ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE Schools of tomorrow need teachers (if they are still called that way) who live the vision of tomorrow’s world of learning. They need the capability for sensing and seizing emerging learning opportunities, which work along a new understanding of theory and practice, of school learning and learning in society.

This view challenges conventional concepts of instruction and (classroom) management. Most models of learning build on reflecting and learning from the past. However, within the context of schooling we are confronted with new challenges which do not ask for improving the status quo but for innovative, creative and future thinking and acting. Re-creating professionality asks for processes which open mind, heart and will. The speaker addresses the quest for a new meaning in leading and learning for change.

Overview of Sessions

Friday Sep 26th Saturday Sep 27th 09.00-10.00 A1 B1 C1 D1 E1 Keynote

Coffee 10.30 – 11.30 A2 B2 C2 D2 E2 A6 B6 C6 D6 E6

11.45 – 12.45 A3 B3 C3 D3 E3 A7 B7 C7 D7 E7

F1

Lunch 14.00 – 15.00 A4 B4 C4 D4 E4 A8 B8 D8 E8

Coffee 15.30 – 16.30 C5 E5 A9 B9

C8

D9 E9

F2

16.30 – 17.00

A5 B5

D5 Closing session

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Sessions

The conference addresses professional, societal and global challenges to education. The programme is organised as five parallel strands embracing these areas, within which sessions target topics of similar nature. The sessions are numbered with the syntax Session/Time slot, for example A1, which means thematic strand, session no. 1 at Friday at 09h00. All sessions are described on pages 6-14. A1 EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – FROM THEORY TO CLASSROOM PRACTICE A2 LEARNING BY WALKING - IMMERSIONS IN RURAL BANGLADESH A3 ACTIVE LEARNING – A TOOL FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING A4 MAKING A DIFFERENCE - STRATEGY FOR A SUSTAINABLE MUNICIPALITY A5 IF THE WORLD WERE A VILLAGE - GLOBAL EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS A6 BREAKING BARRIERS THROUGH EDUCATION: A MYTH OR REALITY? A7 GOING GLOBAL - EDUACTIONAL ADVANTAGES A8 LET'S MAKE THINGS BETTER, TOGETHER DESIGNING A MINOR ON GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY A9 THE WORLD WE SHARE

B1 CITIZENSHIP IN THE CLASSROOM IN FIVE COUNTRIES B2 THE MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM: CHANCE AND/OR CHALLENGE? B3 TEACHERS' TRAINING: "POSSIBILITIES OF JOINT MASTER TEACHER EDUCATION IN EUROPE" B4 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: A VEHICLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE SKILLS, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL VALUES OF STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS B5 INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES OF TEACHERS - A CHALLENGE FOR VALUE RELATED PROBLEMS IN CLASSROOMS B6 LEADING FOR CHILDREN B7 COMMUNITY POWER B8 TWO LANGUAGES FOR PRIMARY PUPILS B9 NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

C1 A LEGACY FOR INCLUSION - THE ITM C2 LEARNING ON THE JOB C3 HELPING THE COUNTRY CHILD SUCCEED IN SCHOOL C4 THE LEARNING FRIENDLY CLASSROOM C5 THE PROCESS OF DIAGNOSIS THE UNDERACHIEVEMENT SYNDROME IN THE GROUP OF GIFTED AND CREATIVE CHILDREN C6 BRAIN COMPATIBLE CLASSROOMS C7 TALENT FOR 2028 C8 PARTNER SEARCH: THE TEACHER AS A RESEARCHER; A COMENIUS PROJECT

D1 VIRTUAL WORLDS: RESHAPING LEARNING OR JUST ANOTHER FAD? D2 DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING: "IMPROVEMENT OF LEARNING EFFICENCY APPLYING A COMPUTER PROGRAM" D3 DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING: "NEW POSSIBILITIES IN THE COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING DIAGNOSTICS" D4 TEACHERS' TRAINING: "MAKING THE COMPETENCE BASED TEACHERS’ TRAINING " D5 BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE IN TEACHER TRAINING PRIMARY EDUCATION D6 TEACHING: THE “IMPOSSIBLE” PROFESSION? D7 THE LIFE HISTORY METHOD D8 BACK TO THE ANCIENT TIMES? D9 CH-CH-CH-CHANGES … (TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE)

E1 A FOCUS ON EARLY LANGUAGE LEARNING E2 TEACHER PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO: WEAVING THE STORY OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT E3 PROBLEM SOLVING METHODS TO ENHACE TEACHERS’ CREATIVITY E4 ME MYSELF & I - THE INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PROCESS NEVER COMES WITHOUT ITS TWIN, THE PEER PROCESS E5 THE ROLE OF INTUITION AND REASONING IN TEACHING E6 BUILDING SELF-ESTEEM ON A SCHOOLWIDE BASIS E7 WHEN THE LEARNERS EVALUATE THEMSELVES E8 “HOMEWORK FREE” EDUCATION E9 “EFFECTIVE SCHOOL”

F1 GETTING YOUR WORK PUBLISHED F2 CLASSROOMS IN EUROPE: ARE WE MORE UNITED THAN DIVERSE?

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Friday Sep 26th at 09.00 – 10.00 A1 EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT – FROM THEORY TO CLASSROOM PRACTICE Lecture. Presenters: Peder Sandahl and Christer Torstensson (SE) Target audience: General Fundamentally ESD is about values, respect for others, including those of present and future generations, for difference and diversity, for the environment, for the resources of the planet we inhabit. It comprises social, economic and environmental dimensions. ESD mirrors the concern for education of high quality, demonstrating characteristics such as: interdisciplinary and holistic, values-driven, critical thinking and problem solving, multi-method, participatory decision-making and locally relevant. The workshop highlights the road from understanding the theory behind to classroom practice through discussions and examples.

B1 CITIZENSHIP IN THE CLASSROOM IN FIVE COUNTRIES Lecture. Presenters: Margetha Sandström Kjellin (SE), Luisa Abreu (PT), Gerard de Kruif (NL), Trevor Davies (UK), Bernarda Smigielska (PL), Lena Våglund (SE) and Jonas Stier (SE) Target audience: General A report from a Comenius 2.1 project will be presented and discussed. The project aims at developing teachers’ interpersonal, intercultural, social and civic competence. The study presented in the report was a multiple case study and the methods for collecting data were focus group dialogues (with 34 teacher students), one video recording in each country and a document analysis of a European overview of citizenship education in Europe. Five countries participated (The Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, The United Kingdom and Sweden). The study focused on 12-year old pupils. One conclusion was that teacher education needs to focus more on a horizontal classroom dialogue if goals for citizenship education are to be reached.

C1 A LEGACY FOR INCLUSION - THE ITM Lecture. Presenters: Dr. Marija Kavkler (SI), Dr. Ann Morrison Clement (USA) and Milena Kosak Babuder (SI) Target audience: General The systematic training of school staff for the inclusion of students with special needs continues to be a professional challenge. The Inclusion Team Model (ITM) has been developed in Slovenia to meet this need in a unique manner. The training focuses on the team process, consultation skills and specific technical expertise . The multi-professional team players in this model include the "Trainers", the "Inclusion Team members" and the "School Team members". The significance of this model is to provide training that will enable school staff to implement inclusion practices that are effective in meeting the needs of all students.

D1 VIRTUAL WORLDS - RESHAPING LEARNING OR JUST ANOTHER FAD? Lecture. Presenter: Simon Walker (UK) Target audience: General Generation X regard the internet as a vital medium to gain knowledge. For Generation Y and Z, the web is the oxygen of learning. Web 2.0 allows learners to do more than just retrieve information; it is an 'architecture of participation' which allows users to publish to websites using rich media. Technology continues to evolve - educators continue to experiment. Web 3.0 is emerging and, like its predecessors, promises much; a feature are 3D semi-immersive worlds that may provide activities for experiential learning, opportunities for collaboration and co-creation, authentic contexts, simulation and role-play, etc. This paper will present the findings of a Second Life student-build project undertaken at the University of Greenwich that explores whether this environment and the approach adopted can meet expectations of learners and their teachers.

E1 A FOCUS ON EARLY LANGUAGE LEARNING Lecture. Presenters: Peter Öhlander, Britt Marie Melin and Mona Sennmark (SE) Target audience: Pre-school and Primary Pre-school and primary school teachers in our school district is carrying out a joint project on early language learning. The purpose of the project is to enhance teachers' knowledge of how children comprehend, develop and learn language in the early ages. Teachers from our three pre-schools and five primary schools form mixed working groups and discuss in order to share experience and to learn. Based on literature such as "Children's language development" by professor Anders Arnqvist we meet in cross-professional learning groups for learning dialogues during four weeks a year. The session will share this innovative way of communication between pre-school and primary school teachers, and illustrate knowledge gained by the project.

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Friday Sep 26th at 10.30 – 11.30 A2 LEARNING BY WALKING - IMMERSIONS IN RURAL BANGLADESH Lecture. Presenters: Bosse Kramsjö and Hans Ljungqvist (SE) Target audience: General How can we learn about real life among the target groups of development aid? How can we ever get close to the living circumstances of the ordinary people in an Indian subcontinent village? How can we reach some reasonable level of understanding of their "inside"? The Global Journey is organized by The Global School, Sweden. The aim is to provide educationalists with deepened and widened perspectives through seminars in every-day settings in a handful of development countries. This lecture gives the example of Bangladesh, where living with rural families is an efficient way of learning and an option for change of mind sets.

B2 THE MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM: CHANCE AND/OR CHALLENGE? Workshop. Presenter: Ferdinand Patscheider (IT) Target audience: General Immigration, emigration, transmigration – a common phenomenon all over Europe and the world. Despite the fact that this reality has been around for quite some time now, examples of good practice how to deal with the issue effectively and efficiently in schools are rare. In this workshop the implementation of strategies of integrating children and young people from all over the world in schools and into society in general, adopted in South Tyrol, Italy, will be presented. Priority is put on the learning of the two languages used in this region. The experiences with workshop participants will be shared, compared, discussed and analysed.

D2 DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING: "IMPROVEMENT OF LEARNING EFFICENCY APPLYING A COMPUTER PROGRAM" Workshop. Presenters: Tünde Taskó and Dolli Budaházy-Mester (HU) Target audience: Secondary/Upper secondary and higher education Keywords: learning skills, learning efficiency, computer program, learning diagnostic and development A computer program was developed by an expert team from Eszterházy Károly College, Eger based on the results of our previous research in connection with improving learning efficiency. The computer program can be used individually but gives possibility to discuss the results of the questionnaire with a counsellor. The learning development part of the computer program includes lots of exercises and tasks in order to develop different learning skills and to practice for the effective learning. The computer program offers lots of exercises for the improvement of learning effectiveness through developing basic learning abilities as attention, memory, thinking and verbal funtions. In addition students can get knowledge of external conditions of learning, how to plan the learning process, useful learning techniques and strategies. The different type of exercises can help students to develop interest, motivation and self-image as well as self-esteem. At the conference we would like to introduce our developed computer program in an interactive way to give possibilites the participants to try the program on-line on a workshop.

C2 LEARNING ON THE JOB Lecture. Presenters: Leen van der Sloot, Maurice Pauptit , Peter Hoogenboom, Gerard de Kruif (NL) Target audience: Primary; Higher education Teacher students like to be in school practice as they have the feeling that it is there where they intended to be trained for. However, while being in the school in The Netherlands it is the training college which usually is and was responsible for the training of the student. The Hague University (Teacher Training) developed a school practice model for her students, which is also of interest for the receiving schools. Schools have taken over part of the responsibility to train the students. Teachers of the schools are firstly trained to become a coach for the students by the training college. But it is not only the school and the training college who are responsible for training of the student. In this model it is also the student himself who is, responsible for the success of the training during the four years, by reporting his refelections on his professional growth. In this presentation The Hague University (teacher training) will present this model as a means for a strong link between theory and practice. E2 TEACHER PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO: WEAVING THE STORY OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Workshop. Presenters: Dr. Karel Rýdl, Michaela Píšová and Pavel Brebera (CZ) Target audience: General Teacher portfolio might be considered a vehicle of a new type of teacher professionalism as it encompasses its core concepts: mission, identity, passion / call for teaching, beliefs. It addresses the professional value system, and stands both as a tool for its development and a platform for presenting / "showcasing" and sharing professional values within professional learning communities. The aim of the workshop is to discuss the "portfolio experience" gained within a specific model of pre-service teacher education at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic.

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Friday Sep 26th at 11.45 – 12.45 A3 ACTIVE LEARNING – A TOOL FOR GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING Workshop. Presenters: Bo Hellström and Janina Lundell (SE) Target audience: General; Secondary/Upper secondary schools Simulation is a learning process, which involves participants in role abstractions, simplifications, or presentations representing real-life social, physical, or biological situations, processes or environments. A simulation permits a person to become a working member of a system, setting goals and objectives, processing and analyzing information, and developing policies for further activity. During this hour you'll get the opportunity to take active part in a simulation on the theme sustainable devoplopment and you´ll also get some of the theories behind active learning and especially simulations. C3 HELPING THE COUNTRY CHILD SUCCEED IN SCHOOL Worklshop. Presenter: Jadwiga Lorenc (PL) Target audience: Pre-school and primary Over 25% of the children from class 0 to 3 in Poland have a speech, language or communication impairment. It results from insufficient logopedical intervention and the lack of parents’ and carers’ proper awereness of this problem. Do not let your child be destined to fail at the start of its school career. The school should be a wonderful adventure, not an unpleasent duty. The Alternative Educational Centre in the country setting is to stimulate speech and languge development of children aged between 3 and 5 . Equal opportunities for children starting their school career are achieved by early specialist diagnosis, intervention and cooperation with parents and teachers. With the right support in proper time and all society commitment the country child will succeed in school. E3 PROBLEM SOLVING METHODS TO ENHACE TEACHERS’ CREATIVITY Lecture. Presenter: Michel Vidal (FR) Target audience: General The Comenius 2.1 project “prosolva” aims at giving an overview of problem solving methods helpful for teachers with difficulties. Its aim is also to introduce problem-solving methods in schools, as a main approach to allow teachers and students to develop their personal and professional awareness, autonomy and adaptation ability influencing on their professional practice, and eventually to develop lifelong learning skills. Different methods can be distinguished: individual reflexive methods, group methods that aim to analyse a difficult situation, or/and to suggest new types of solutions. Introduced in an educational team, these have interesting impact: increasing the motivation and the self esteem of teachers, creating an active educational team, developing new skills, and re-interpreting responsibilities.

B3 TEACHERS' TRAINING: "POSSIBILITIES OF JOINT MASTER TEACHER EDUCATION IN EUROPE" Lecture. Presenters: Maria David and Magdolna Varga Estefan (HU) Target audience: Secondary/Upper secondary and higher education Europe is not only rich in culture, but also in pedagogical approaches. Educational systems, teaching methods and pedagogical thinking differs between countries and cultures. Teachers should learn from these differences, adopt what they think would improve their teaching, sustain and strengthen what they think they do well already. In our presentation, we would like to introduce an international cooperation between 9 European universities (University of Groningen, University of Edinburgh, Charles University Prague, University of Tartu, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Universities of Helsinki and Joensuu (Finland), Eszterházy Károly College Eger, University of Regensburg). The partners in this project want to establish a Joint Master in Teacher Education (JoMiTE) for secondary education in September 2010. Therefore it is necessary to develop a common curriculum, where students can follow comparable courses at different universities. The aim of these projects are: to develop the curriculum of theoretical and practical courses. These theoretical courses in teacher education and the teaching practice together will be 60 ECTS. Besides courses focused on teacher education, students will also follow 60 ECTS in the subject itself. Students who participate in the Joint Master will follow courses at at least three different universities throughout Europe and will visit schools and work in-service at schools in at least three different countries. Our intention is not to create a uniform European Teacher. On the contrary, we want to advocate the diversity in culture and pedagogy within Europe. We would like to present i the first results of this common work. D3 DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING: "NEW POSSIBILITIES IN THE COMPUTER-AIDED LEARNING DIAGNOSTICS" Workshop. Presenters: Andrea Hatvani and Katalin Héjja-Nagy (HU) Target audience: Secondary/Upper secondary and higher education In our presentation, we would like to introduce a learning diagnostic questionnaire, that was developed in Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary, like a part of a computer program. The main aim of this computer program is to support students’ individual learning and help them to find their weaknesses and strengths of their learning. There are two main parts of the computer program: a self-definition questionnaire (supports learning diagnostic work) and different types of exercises focusing on improving learning skills as a part of learning development. The computer program also give information about the theoretical background of learning and its development. The questionnaire aims to explore learning habits of adolescents and young adults. It is to be completed by means of a computer programme, as this age group show great interest towards computers and the internet. In our paper, we will present the process of developing and standardizing the questionnare, as well as the structure and evaluation possibilities of the final version. Participants of this workshop can try out the learning diagnostic questionnaire in live.

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Friday Sep 26th at 14.00 – 15.00 A4 MAKING A DIFFERENCE - STRATEGY FOR A SUSTAINABLE MUNICIPALITY Lecture. Presenters: Mathias Demetriades and Christina Edman (SE) Target audience: General; Pre-school, primary and secondary/upper secondary school Facing new challenges due to globalization, we all need to adapt to the new situation. It is evident that the global agenda does indeed affect the local municipality. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) becomes thus a key issue in order to make sense in a complex world. This lecture presents a strategy in the middle sized Swedish town of Nyköping, where ESD has become an essential pedagogic component, from Pre-School to Upper Secondary School. Concrete examples of this will be shown. Moreover, the political process and ambition as well as the structure of the project will be displayed and discussed. The Global School’s role in the work will also be brought to light.

B4 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: A VEHICLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE SKILLS, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL VALUES OF STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS Paper. Presenter: Dr. Martina Jordaan (South Africa) Target audience: Higher education The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, implemented as from 2005, a compulsory undergraduate module, Community-Based Project. This module gives students the opportunity to execute a service to a community; thereby have an impact on a section of society. The aim of the module is to develop an awareness of personal, social and cultural values as well as multidisciplinary and life skills. The paper will discuss the reasoning behind the creation of this module, the successes and lesson learnt.

C4 THE LEARNING FRIENDLY CLASSROOM Workshop. Presenters: Carole Price and Lesley Burnett (UK) Target audience: Primary and secondary/upper secondary One of the greatest challenges for teachers is providing a learning environment that ensures successful learning for all pupils, including those who find learning difficult. The 'learning friendly' classroom requires a 'learning friendly' teacher, who is able to use resources and teaching approaches that support pupils, while at the same time promoting independence and confidence. This workshop considers what a 'learning friendly' classroom might look like and explores the key elements that ensure inclusion for all pupils, using examples from work carried out in schools in East Sussex. E4 ME MYSELF & I - THE INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PROCESS NEVER COMES WITHOUT ITS TWIN, THE PEER PROCESS Workshop. Presenter: Renate Potzmann (AT) Target audience: Secondary/Upper secondary The workshop offers a concept to support sustainability in individual learning. There will be examples of how teachers can support and encourage individual learning. In this context, individual learning encompasses student goals like the development of gifts and talents, knowing about their strengths and weaknesses, the abililty to reflect their learning processses and the ability to actively participate in a change of learning habits if necessary. To guarantee their success, it may be necesssary for students to reflect and thus improve their knowledge about their individual learning processes.Individual learning never stands alone but is embedded in peer group learning.

D4 TEACHERS' TRAINING: "MAKING THE COMPETENCE BASED TEACHERS’ TRAINING" Lecture. Presenters: Zuzsanna Hanák and Magdolna Varga Estefan (HU) Target audience: General. Primary, secondary/upper secondary and higher education Key words: teachers’ training, competence based education, program adaptation Last years international measurements and researches sign that Hungarian students are behind in more acquired skills (text understanding-, creation, mathematics, career building) as it is required. For building the ability of life long learning and the successful career it is necessary to make, strength and supplement the traditionally “good student” image with other characters like independent, inner control, self adjustment, studying ability, open minded, flexibility, creativity, tolerance, collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving. Under competence based trainings we understand the education where the abilities, the skills development, the useable knowledge establish the life long learning and make the person to reach his or her personal aims in own life and adjustment to the changing circumstances. We finished 6 programs adaptation in our teacher training program: 1 career building 2 social, life-style and environment competences 3 IT competence 4 Cooperative learning 5 Multi cultural content, intercultural education 6 Project pedagogical field In our presentation we show these programs, detailed the results of the adaptation. The method of impact study is questionnaire The result is new competence based training in Esztehazy Karoly College Our conclusions we would like to present in the conference.

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Friday Sep 26th at 15.30 – 16.30/17.00 A5 IF THE WORLD WERE A VILLAGE - GLOBAL EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS Workshop. 90 min. Presenter: Karin Thaler (AT) Target audience: Primary school Global Education for young learners - Are you curious to know more about Nalani from Hawaii and her favourite game? - Would you fancy a fantasy trip to the cocoa beans in Bolivia? - Are you interested in your, my, our rights - children's rights? This workshop offers a great variety of current social topics and shows possibilities of how to integrate global learning into teaching in a creative way. Global Learning aims to react in a pedagogically appropriate way to the challenges of our time and the growing complexity in our world. It opens our eyes towards the world and shows the interaction between local life and global situations. C5 THE PROCESS OF DIAGNOSIS THE UNDERACHIEVEMENT SYNDROME IN THE GROUP OF GIFTED AND CREATIVE CHILDREN Workshop. Presenter: Dr. Beata Dyrda (PL) Target audience: General The main problem raised in the workshop concentrates on abilities, creative aptitudes and opportunities of using them. The most important aims of presented research results are: • the relation between the level of convergent,

divergent thinking and school achievement; • the knowledge and consciousness of teachers

connected with problem of Underachievement Syndrome;

• Underachievement Syndrome - its range and causes based on individual cases research;

• therapy of children with the signs of Underachievement Syndrome

The research was undertaken in Polish primary school (V and VI classes) in group of 282 pupils. There were three phases of research: • diagnostic-verification phase which was carried

out in all 282 group of pupils, • diagnostic phase based on individual cases, • therapy of Underachievement Syndrome - action

research. E5 THE ROLE OF INTUITION AND REASONING IN TEACHING Open session. Introducer: Therese An Beaudry (Canada) Target audience: General Two types of knowledge are used to influence reasoning in the reciprocity of teaching and learning. Unconscious knowledge is the intuitive knowledge one is not aware of having even when actively using it to reason. One’s intuitive reasoning is a construct of knowledge that allows instant and accurate judgments. Logical knowledge formulates reasoning to process an outcome. The presenter in no way attempts to refute logical or conscious reasoning in judgment; rather, affirms intuition and logic coexists in reasoning that significantly influences the teaching experience.

B5 INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCES OF TEACHERS - A CHALLENGE FOR VALUE RELATED PROBLEMS IN CLASSROOMS Workshop. 90min. Presenter: Dr. Bernd Hainmüller (DE) Target audience: General; Secondary/ Upper secondary schools The workshop aims to present and discuss with the participants methodological and didactical tools for four purposes: a) Identify areas and contexts, in which cultural diversity is of manifest relevance for the teaching and learning processes in schools and classrooms. Participants should collect data and formulate a panorama of cultural diversity issues in their home country; b) Raise the awareness of cultural diversity of professionals, who do or did not have to deal with that question yet; c) Make the professional community aware, that cultural diversity is not threatening, but supporting pathways to european citizenship as one of the main future issues in a wider European horizon; d) Build in cultural diversity competences and attitudes into the general profile of the teaching profession; f) support the professional community in integrating the function of educating towards cultural diversity as a generic part of the teaching profession; e) To actively discuss newly developed teaching methodologies from a running Lifelong Learning Programme Comenius 2. 1. project TICKLE (Teachers Intercultural Competences as Keystones for Learning in Europe) and identify tools for learning situations, which are characterized by a severe cultural diversity issue. Are these tools transferrable and can help to expand the range of methodology in this area of teaching and learning by using synergies. D5 BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE IN TEACHER TRAINING PRIMARY EDUCATION Workshop. 90 min. Presenters: Anna Gerritsma and K. Jellema- van der Meulen (NL) Target audience: Primary schools and higher education In our workshop we like to introduce the model of our curriculum Teacher Training College. The model gives an idea about how we try to solve the problems (gap in training theorie and practice) there are between the training of the students in the Teacher Training College and in the practice of the primary schools. We see communication with children as one of the characteristic or even "critical situations" for teachers they have to control. In an example and an exercise for the members of the workshop, we give an idea how students develop their skills in communication with an individual child and a group of children. In the exercise we observe the communication between the teacher and the children and we value the quality of the interaction (video-interaction guidance). Key words are: to follow; to receive; to give approval; giving and taking turns; giving guidance. There will be included an exercise with interaction between members of the workshop. We will show an example of a student (on video) who has to do an assessment in a semi-authentic situation; she will be assessed by the members of the workshop, with the help of an assessment form. One of the problems we focus on in this workshop is how difficult it is to train, to value and to assess skills and attitudes of teachers.

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Saturday Sep 27th at 10.30 – 11.30 A6 BREAKING BARRIERS THROUGH EDUCATION: A MYTH OR REALITY? Lecture. Presenters: Deogratias Ssekyole (Uganda) and Christer Torstensson (SE) Target audience: General The quality and pace of any country's socio-economic development, and indeed its place in a global setting, is largely a reflection of the education system of that particular country. Uganda is undergoing a major education reform geared towards achieving sustainable development which is relevant to her citizens and acceptable in the global context. The reforms are in line with the "Millennium Development Goals" and the "Education For All" (EFA), recommendations. The reform; among other things, has seen the introduction of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in 1997 and the revision of the Primary School Cirruculum in 1999. The presentation will assess the extent to which reforms at Primary School level have broken the barriers and offered citizens opportunities to effectively contribute to sustainable development in a global context.

B6 LEADING FOR CHILDREN Lecture. Presenter: Graham Handscomb (UK) Target audience: General How do we put children at the centre and make sure that we do everything we can to help them thrive, achieve, contribute positively as citizens? In England there has been a great effort to make sure that colleagues in education work more closely with those in health and social care, so that they are more joined-up in providing services to support children. This poses a considerable professional challenge. How can professionals from different backgrounds can work and develop together? What does leadership look like in this new world of integrated services? This session will explore innovative work taking place in Essex, one of Engalnd's largest Local Authorities looking at new forms of collaborative leadership.

D6 TEACHING: THE “IMPOSSIBLE” PROFESSION? Workshop. Presenters: Dr. Ilse Schrittesser and Dr. Angelika Paseka (AT) Target audience: Secondary/upper secondary and higher education In the context of international developments in teacher education and school practice we first intend to give a brief overview of intenational trends in school systems (accountability, governance, teaching as a "clinical profession") which will then be followed by an action model of teacher professionalism based on the Theory of Structure and Agency by Anthony Giddens. As a next step a suggestion on basic competences for future teachers and the structuration of schools will be articulated. In connection with these competences first results of an empirical studiy we are about to carry through will be described.

C6 BRAIN COMPATIBLE CLASSROOMS Workshop. Presenter: Herman Hoedemaker (NL) Target audience: Pre-school, primary and secondary/upper secondary We accept the truth that every person is unique and that every brain is unique as well. Every brain has its own natural learning process. In this workshop we will find out how we can create a brain compatible classroom. Participants will learn the 12 brain principles and will find out how to use them. "Teach less and learn more!" E6 BUILDING SELF-ESTEEM ON A SCHOOLWIDE BASIS Workshop. Presenters: Greta Bratovš and Nataša Privošnik (SI) Target audience: Primary, secondary/upper secondary Teachers today are struggling to accommodate the diverse backgrounds and needs of students. They are finding it difficult to motivate students to higher levels of achievement, and are increasingly concerned about the level of conflict and violence displayed in the school setting. Unfortunately, most of these efforts have not been successful because they have addressed the wrong issues. After 10 years of working with schools all over our country we found, that unless schools create an environment conducive to positive self-esteem and the forming of effective relationships, no significant positive changes can take place. Our BASE program has so far served as a guide and resource for many successful schools, including many that have received national recognition.The purpose of the program is to enable educators to establish a school environment that increases motivation, creativity, cooperation, and overall achievement. While the program’s Teacher’s Manual provides suggestions and resources to help teachers foster positive self-esteem in the classroom, the Guide for Administrators is intended to help the school administrator model the behaviors and establish the conditions that are conducive to both positive staff and student self-esteem.

F1 GETTING YOUR WORK PUBLISHED Workshop. 2,5h. Presenters: Bill Goddard and Francia Kinchington (UK) Target audience: General Two 75 minute sessions are planned for this writing workshop which is geared towards preparing papers for The Learning Teacher Journal. Participants are invited to bring ideas/drafts of papers and ideas for research with a view to writing papers that can be submitted to the journal. Members of the editorial board will be running a workshop which will provide expert guidance to successful publication of research. Participants will be expected to present a summary of their research to the group, to explore ethical issues in carrying out their research, and to share drafts of their work with other members of the group.

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Saturday Sep 27th at 11.45 – 12.45 A7 GOING GLOBAL - EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES Lecture. Presenters: Nicholas Falk and Anne Jakins (UK) Target audience: General As Learning Together Ambassadors for the British Council and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Nick Falk and Anne Jakins have considerable experience in managing successful international projects both across Europe and in Africa. Our presentation will share how as part of the Connecting Classrooms programme in Uganda we have linked our school with a cluster of primary and secondary schools in the rural area of Mbale. Included will be: • Use ICT to develop effective communication • Provide economic sustainability through enterprise involving students in both schools • Explore cultural and environmental differences The second strand will focus on our European experience and will encompass: • Partnership stories • Creative use of ICT with a purpose • The positive impact of international partnerships on teaching and learning • Preparing work for a specific audience

B7 COMMUNITY POWER Workshop. Presenter: Marc Thiry (NL) Target audience: Pre-school, primary, secondary/upper secondary The school community can be divided in four parties: students, teachers, parents and the school environment. These parties can either contribute to or threaten the quality of the school. This workshop will elaborate on how to use the power of these four parties, the community power effectively. Furthermore, the experiences of the attendees with the community power will be shared.

C7 TALENT FOR 2028 Workshop. Presenter: Anton de Vries (NL) Target audience: Primary and secondary/upper secondary schools Who can predict what we need as a society in 5, 10 or 20 years? How can we use our talents in order to be ready for 2028? How can education and teachers play an important role and empower the talents that children naturally embody? The children we teach today will be around 30 - 40 years off age in 2028 and facing problems off all kinds. Have they been taught the skills and gained the knowledge they need? In this workshop you will find out how you can identify the natural talents off the children from today and how you can work systematically with their talents. To do so, you will be invited to look at your own talents. Please bring with you your own old school-report and mark lists and your early memories as a child.

D7 THE LIFE HISTORY METHOD Lecture. Presenters: Eva Rhöse Martinsson and Elisabeth Björklund (SE) Target audience: Higher education This lecture is a presentation and demonstration of a method used in writing exams and papers at the teacher education at Karlstad University. The model has also been used in PhD theses in a successful way. In short this method is a way of building a scientific report based on one person's (here: a teacher's) life story. In order to accomplish this, long and deep interviews are required. Along with the story the students also include previous research and literature references. The life history method has shown to be a way of creating good texts of high quality and the results are highly readable essays. We will show the participants at the session how we present the method to our students as well as how we educate and tutor them in the process of writing good texts.

E7 WHEN THE LEARNERS EVALUATE THEMSELVES Workshop. Presenters: Anne Buhl Jørgensen and Kenneth Højland (DK) Target audience: Primary and secondary/upper secondary All evaluation of learners should cause a reflection on the teaching. In this workshop we want to present a method that makes it possible for the learners to evaluate themselves. The method will make the learner aware of strength and development fields and will impart important knowledge to the teacher about the learners outcome of the teaching. The method can be adjusted to learners of all ages and subjects of all sorts.

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Saturday Sep 27th at 14.00 – 15.00 A8 LET'S MAKE THINGS BETTER, TOGETHER DESIGNING A MINOR ON GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY Workshop. Presenter: Margriet Kat (NL) Target audience: Higher education During the autumn term of 2007 a group af students worked together with teachers and companies and organisations to create a minor (30 European Credits) on the subject of Global Sustainibility: sustainable development. Goal of the process is to create a learning community of professionals, students and employers and organisations on this subject. In spring term 2008 new students from all different departments NHL University (University of applied sciences) will work and study together on this subject. In the workshop we will present the format of the developing process, and try to adept this format to other universities and schools. Also we will present the experiences and results from the first working period. C8 PARTNER SEARCH: THE TEACHER AS A RESEARCHER; A COMENIUS PROJECT Workshop. 90 min. Presenters: Gerard de Kruif, Leen van der Sloot, Peter Hoogenboom and Maurice Pauptit (NL) Target audience: Primary, secondary/upper secondary and higher education The Hague University would like to meet partners (training colleges AND schools), who like to join a Comenius project on " Reasearch in the classroom". As a teacher training college we focus on an international perspective to a local project: Learning on the job (meet us during the presentation of this issue). We have ideas about teacher students doing research in the classrooms of school partners. We have in mind to start with an introduction conference, after that exchange students from teacher training colleges with schools doing in the schools, exchange their experiences during a student conference, giving feed back to the schools in Europe where they have carried out their research. Finally we think of a European conference for all participants and ending up with the publication of the research results. The workshop will concentrate on the presenation of our ideas for a Comenius project and the discussion with possible partners from Higher Education and schools about the plans. Many is still open. E8 “HOMEWORK FREE” EDUCATION Workshop. Presenters: Annemarie Kingma-Douma and Theun Hoogsteen (NL) Target audience: Secondary/Upper secondary Since a couple of years the Lauwers College in Surhuisterveen (a comprehensive school) has introduced an activating kind of education during the first two years of secondary school. During the lessons teachers use almost the same structures with short instructions and plenty of time for children to practise their skills. Children are e.g. taught to work independently, to wait for attention and to take responsibility for their tasks, tests, essays and other work for school. Because all the work is done at school, children don’t have serious problems with heavy satchels or schoolbags!

B8 TWO LANGUAGES FOR PRIMARY PUPILS Workshop. Presenters: Dr. Tony Hayes, Anouska Paul and Miss Rebecca Sheppard (UK) Target audience: Primary Our primary school has 650 children aged from 4 to 11 years old. This year we began a new project teaching French and Spanish, in alternate years, to all our children. The programme was devised and is delivered by two young teachers who are only in their second year of teaching. The workshop will give participants an insight into the methods we use and the opportunity to learn a little French and/or Spanish. The programme also shows that the school has a culture that encourages staff to be innovative.

D8 BACK TO THE ANCIENT TIMES? Open session. Introducer: Gyöngyi Fábián (HU) Target audience: General In our world one needs to cope with a number of challenges, which expect responses of various manner. What are the supporting and hindering factors determining the process of adaptation to the novel situation? Are we prepared to do so? The session addresses the questions through exploring the genetical, cultural and historical roots of the development of man. Launching from this platform, we will also intend to investigate the common areas of challenges from the perspective of the teacher in order to reveal some of the intercultural aspects of the changes in the teacher's role. F2 CLASSROOMS IN EUROPE: ARE WE MORE UNITED THAN DIVERSE? Thematic discussion. 2x 60 min. Moderator: Dr. Bernd Hainmüller (DE) Target audience: General Five short presentations from national perspectives will be the base for an open discussion on cultural and educational similarities and diversities in the European classrooms. The session will provide sharing and comparing. A few common and a few contrasting elements will be extracted from the discussion.

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Saturday Sep 27th at 15.30 – 16.30 A9 THE WORLD WE SHARE Lecture. Presenter: Eva Erixon (SE) Target group: Primary and secondary schools The UN Convention of the Rights of a Child, Agenda 21, the Kyoto Protocol and now the Bali climate negotiations show the gravity and necessity to work for sustainable development. Education must sincerely embrace issues on environment, health, democracy from a global perspective. During many years I have been working from this perspective as a teacher, developing strategies to make work for sustainability intelligible and understandable to both pupils and parents. Our school has made a priority of transforming the overall global, environmental aims into daily, concrete action. Examples of our current work include an environmental board of staff and students, the sorting out of household waste and recycling, cultivating fields, a poultry-house, and work with the 'Environmental Ladder' and the 'Contribution to Environment'. We have many foreign visitors, who the pupils host and show around. We also participate in the annual, global voting for the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child, which gives the pupils a better understanding of global problems.

B9 NO MAN IS AN ISLAND Workshop. Presenter: Jacinta McCarthy (IE) Target audience: Primary In our schools today, teachers are required to ensure that eduction provides a venue for socialisation and learning in interaction with others. However, traditionally, teachers have worked in isolation, away from the eyes of colleagues. As a result, it can be difficult for teachers to create these productive learning conditions for their students if these conditions do not exist for the teachers themselves. How can teachers learn to become effective collaborative partners in practice? This workshop looks at the changes in teachers' practice that the 'new ways of working' demand of teachers and aims to address the challenges that teachers face in developing collaborative work practices. It seeks to examine teacher identity, through a variety of reflective, interactive excercises.

E9 “EFFECTIVE SCHOOL” Lecture. Presenters: Sónia Henriques Pisa and Inácio Casinhas (PT) Target audience: General This lecture will focus on the change of the school paradigm applied to a Portuguese private school. What is an effective school? How can we measure it? What are its characteristics? These are some of the questions that we tried to answer with a field study in our institution, which started with five starting-point variables (1 - attention to the specific needs of the students; 2 - parents and teachers' cooperation; 3 - promotion of the students' personal and social development; 4 - parents and teachers' support; 5 - evaluation function) that ultimately lead to an increase of the students' performance, among other results.

D9 CH-CH-CH-CHANGES … (TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE) Workshop. Presenters: Vibecke Nordbø, Anne Breivik and Hege Hopen (NO) Target audience: Secondary/Upper secondary As a result of a new curriculum, and an increasing, media-driven focus on the actual role and function of the teacher in our society, we find ourselves in the middle of a huge transition between different modes of teaching. This transition is also visible at a physical level, with the merging of several small units into a single, big one, to create large university-like building structures. Our aim with this presentation is to examine the professional challenges involved in this process, and how both we as professionals and our pupils try to cope with the current changes.

Junior Symposium

The conference will include also a junior symposium. The symposium invites students from Europe to meet and link, to take part in the conference but also to form student networking and to take initial steps for multinational project initiatives. See separate invitation and programme, which also is posted on the conference website.

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INFORMATION VIENNA CONFERENCE 2008

Working language The working language of the conference will be English.

Conference website and contact address Full conference information is available on the conference website www.vienna08.eu. Information regarding the conference is also posted on the network website www.learningteacher.org. The Vienna Conference Bureau may be contacted on e-mail address [email protected]. For inquiries on local matters: e-mail address [email protected]. Information about the conference venue is posted on www.airo-hotels.at.

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